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This article analyzes the processes of risk visualization characterizing disaster risk reduction policies and, in particular, the digital artifacts the international world of disaster management uses in an effort to view threats to the planet and render them open to human experience. The purpose of these artifacts is to foster experiences that grant both quantitative shape and social form to the nature of global risks. Tangible Earth, the first interactive digital globe, is the most sophisticated of these artifacts in that it strives to gather a wide, varied audience of humans and enroll them in co-producing the risks affecting the Earth. This process of delving into experiences of the globe as mediated by digital equipment mobilizes diverse ontologies: there is a “naturalist ontology” that represents nature as independent of the social sphere, as a force that remains insurgent and unpredictable despite efforts to quantitatively capture it through earth-monitoring instruments and probabilistic calculations, and there is also an “analogist ontology” in which nature is cast as indistinguishable from the social sphere on the grounds that both human and non-human collectives share the same propensity for resilience.
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The UN Hyogo Declaration of 2005 introduced the concept of resilience in the field of disaster risk reduction, proposing the union of environmental sustainability with civil protection. By merging the technical and engineering sciences with the social-ecological one on the subject of disaster reduction, it was expected stronger links between planning and emergency management. Almost ten years after the Hyogo Declaration lot of work has been done in this direction, yet much remains to be done. For example, the abstract concept of resilience must be translated into formulas and quantitative indices that allow spatial analysis of the adaptive capacity of an area. This is one of the main objective of a PhD project on disaster risk reduction at the Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy.
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A central idea of Teilhard De Chardin's cosmological vision (a synthesis of the evolutionary and theological-creationist perspectives on the appearance of Man on Earth) is that of 'Global Reflective Consciousness' (not sum but fusion of individual con-sciousnesses). Correlating the findings of the P.E.A.R. (that human consciousness is able, through still unknown channels, to predict, in a statistically significant way, the outcome between two possible outputs of the same phenomenon many times repeated, as in the classic coin toss) and those of G.C.P. (which correlates the variations in automatic mechanisms, located in various parts of the globe,providing random binary responses, to the occurrence of events of global significance) it is likely that in the future a method can be developed for predicting and monitoring catastrophic event
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Ogni cultura possiede un bagaglio condiviso di rappresentazioni sociali , ovvero «un complesso di idee, di immagini, di informazioni, di atteggiamenti e di valori tenuto insieme da un sistema cognitivo avente una propria logica e un proprio linguaggio» (Grande, 2005, p. 67). Le rappresentazioni sociali sono funzionali alla vita di una società poiché forniscono una base conoscitiva che orienta la nostra lettura del mondo e organizza la memoria collettiva. L’affermarsi di una rappresentazione è il risultato di un lento processo di costruzione, circolazione e sedimentazione di narrazioni e immagini all’interno di una data cultura. Si pone allora il problema di come questo processo di appropriazione di immagini e concetti culturalmente condivisi sia influenzato dall’avvento delle nuove tecnologie e in modo particolare da Internet. ....
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Following the experience made by survey of seismic damage on cultural heritage, during the 2009 earthquake in the Abruzzo region, we have tested techniques, currently available, of 3D modeling based on digital images. The intention is to document situations of particular complexity, it is advisable to perform a detailed and rapid documentation (due to hazardous conditions or difficult accessibility of the detected object). The three-dimensional modeling procedure tested here at work (restoration of a fifteenth-century palace in L’Aquila), when some pictorial decorations were discovered in a location so far inaccessible, (whose enjoyment in the future poses significant conservative issues). The documentation of the status quo, in this case, is an essential starting point for the conservation project.
Oltre la catastrofe Ecologie, visualità e immaginari nelle arti contemporanee
Future Island on a “broken planet”: una risposta artistica agli scenari apocalittici della crisi climatica2024 •
Il contributo intende esplorare e problematizzare possibili approcci dell’arte nei confronti degli scenari apocalittici prospettati dall’incalzante emergenza climatica, attraverso l’esempio del progetto Future Island, commissionato da Public Art Agency Sweden e ideato dall’artista Marjetica Potrč e dallo studio di architettura Ooze (Eva Pfannes e Sylvain Hartenberg).
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